A young man's birthday!

Good morning lovely people! It's birthday day in our household today. So as it's a school day we were all up at the crack of dawn to wish my youngest son a happy twelfth birthday and smother him in cards, prezzies and affection. So far the day has consisted of.....

A card from an older brother.....

...complete with cute little tiny tag sentiment tied on with my lovely linen thread .

A card from doting parents.......(had lots of fun on photoshop with this one).... I think he was going for mean and moody.....

.....using masculine colours and a metal edged tag to hold the sentiment....



....and a teetering pile of prezzies.

Of course, fellow crafters, they're all handmade. I never buy cards now and I'm starting to prefer my own wrapping paper. I don't think there's anything quite as nice as brown parcel paper stamped with a simple image and dressed with a luxurious ribbon.

Anyway the request was for "Chocolate Fudge Cake please", so spare a thought for me as you read this as I'm probably knee deep in cake mixture.

Hope you're all having a good day. I will sit down with a slice of afforementioned cake and a cuppa later and do some perusing of your blogs. Have fun.